That's not true imo; The only difference i remember between the 5 agencies is 1 reference of Kiwis during the White Russian "side" mission and your accent if you are Australian when you go to the Mi6 or whatever it was.
I don't think you can license the idea of building an image by layers. Well, if you're Adobe, you probably can, but definitely not Crush.
I don't think that's true... I think there's a reason why a lot of male gamers tend to play regular games with female avatars and that's because they're pretty and if you're going to be looking at them for however long you are playing the game then avatars matter.
"You enter a bland government office and sit down; the blandly handsome Jim McKenzie pushes a document over to your side of the desk.
Everything about him radiates confident authority, the kind shaped from a life of privilege and success."
"Jim" "I need you read into something. Sign and name here, please..."
"Being 'read into' a programme means you're about to receive classified information about it."
# TODO: <<emote-nose-wrinkle>>
# TODO: <<emote-mouth-smile>>
if k.job_agency == 'MI6':
"You always have to sign a form first, acknowledging your access – and reminding you that unauthorised disclosure of any part is a breach of the Official Secrets Act, punishable by discharge from the service and imprisonment for 14 years."
pass
elif k.job_agency == 'CIA':
"You always have to sign a form first, acknowledging your access, and reminding you that unauthorised disclosure of any part is a breach of the Espionage Act, punishable by a 20-year prison term or the death penalty."
pass
elif k.job_agency == 'ASIS':
"You always have to sign a form first, acknowledging your access – and reminding you that unauthorised disclosure of any part is a breach of Section 79 of the Crimes Act, punishable by discharge from the service and imprisonment for 7 years."
pass
elif k.job_agency == 'CSIS':
"You always have to sign a form first, acknowledging your access – and reminding you that unauthorised disclosure of any part is a breach of the Security of Information Act, punishable by discharge from the service and imprisonment for 14 years."
pass
elif k.job_agency == 'NZSIS':
"You always have to sign a form first, acknowledging your access – and reminding you that unauthorised disclosure of any part is a breach of the Official Information Act, punishable by discharge from the service and imprisonment for 14 years."
pass
"You sign and print [k.personal_name_firstname] [k.personal_name_surname] with your [k.job_agency] ID number, and slide the document back to him to check."
"Jim" "Alright. I've had a personnel request from an interagency task force. Its codename is {b}NEPTUNE...{/b}. Have you heard of it?"
# TODO: <<emote-mouth-talking>>
k "No, sir"
"You shake your head."
if k.job_agency == 'MI6':
"Jim" "Technically it's a FIVE EYES combined task force. We and the Cousins the CIA do the heavy lifting, of course."
"He smiles wryly."
"Jim" "It neutralises funders of cross-border terrorism."
pass
elif k.job_agency == 'CIA':
"Jim" "Technically it's a FIVE EYES combined task force. Directed and funded by the Agency, of course. It neutralises funders of cross-border terrorism."
pass
elif k.job_agency == 'ASIS':
"Jim" "It's a FIVE EYES combined task force. CIA led, we share intel and loan them officers from time to time. It neutralises funders of cross-border terrorism."
pass
elif k.job_agency == 'CSIS':
"Jim" "It's a FIVE EYES combined task force. CIA led, we share intel and loan them officers from time to time. It neutralises funders of cross-border terrorism."
pass
elif k.job_agency == 'NZSIS':
"Jim" "It's a FIVE EYES combined task force. CIA led, we share intel and loan them officers from time to time. It neutralises funders of cross-border terrorism."
pass
"You of course already know that The FIVE EYES is an intelligence agency alliance comprising the US, the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand."
k "Neutralise as in...?"
"Jim" "Capture, interrogate or... terminate. Donors, couriers, organisers;anyone they can get a fix on."
"His words hang in the air while he produces a thin dossier marked TS//QO5//OC/REL TO USA, FVEY."
"The markings means Top Secret; only for individuals read into compartment QO5; originator controls all access; never share beyond FIVE EYES. And with US security markings."
"He sets it down on the desk and looks at you."
if k.job_agency == 'MI6':
"Jim" "[k.personal_name_firstname], I know you've been eager for a foreign assignment..."
pass
elif k.job_agency == 'CIA':
"Jim" "[k.personal_name_firstname], I know you've been pushing for an overseas mission..."
pass
elif k.job_agency == 'ASIS':
"Jim" "[k.personal_name_firstname], I know you're keen for your first foreign mission..."
pass
elif k.job_agency == 'CSIS':
"Jim" "[k.personal_name_firstname], I know you've been pushing for an overseas mission..."
pass
elif k.job_agency == 'NZSIS':
"Jim" "[k.personal_name_firstname], I know you're keen for your first foreign mission..."
pass
"Your senses jolt suddenly alert. Is this real? You'd expected to be ordered to write a report, or organise a committee, or something – are you actually about to get your first field posting?"
"{b}Don't blow it.{/b} You work hard to keep a poker face while he talks."You are making an unofficial port and mod of the underlying game. There are a ton of those on the site. If Crush complained about that or tried to get it pulled he would be a total douchebag. But I hope you keep going because there are huge advantages to further modding if you can release a working version with most of the text in renpy.
More like trying to improve, take critique and criticism, expand and enhance.
Alright, fair enough. I guess it's better than moving forward and then suddenly changing/redoing everything after the game is half done or more... like several devs have done. (Or doing multiple full remakes of their game without ever actually finishing them.)
What is that? I must have missed that part?
In the earlier build of the game (the one before gfx got overhaul) the training included a fake "spy mission" you had to carry out as your final test. You can check it out if you play the
It would be fine without the character customisation, but I wouldn't enjoy it as much. It should obviously be a lower priority than writing.
Previous versions of the game featured extensive mission training/briefing in Scotland including behavioural hypnotherapy (controversial), development of fake social media profiles for cover and local seduction missions, all geared to preparing Kate for the Bangkok field mission. This was all cut and replaced with essentially nothing. In my opinion, the mission prep in Scotland should have been expanded. It is far more important in the context of a spy story than the extended lifepath drivel that Crush obsesses over.
More than that, the secondary quests were done specifically so Crush could avoid progressing the plot. Everything Crush does it to avoid advancing the plot. I believe he has literally no idea what to do after Kate becomes a bargirl and he's fighting desperately to avoid revealing that.
I suspect it's less that he doesn't have an idea what to do, as not having ideas for enough of a filler between "Kate starts fucking clients" and "Kate finds out a client she's fucking is the target, game over, you win".
While I wouldn't be surprised if this was the problem, I think it is one that is easily solved. Crush could have a plot twist that Devilfish is in fact lower down the chain than her superiors thought, and now she has to track down who he is reporting to. Or there is an active terror plot in Bangkok, and the agent has to uncover the details e.g terror cell members, their target, time and date of the attack etc. A lot of episodic stories do this sort of thing.
translated from bullshitish to english: nothing before end of summer. of 2025 (?)Since nobody has beaten me to it, Crush's latest update
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Hey guys! Previous feedback from testers was that I'd cut too much smut out of the Lifepath – they liked a lot of things about it (like the pace, and some RPG mechanics like the character sheet), but they thought it could stand some more sexiness.
This week I wrote two new sex scenes, in the game engine, and put them out to testers (last night). The feedback on them was generally good (several testers said the new scenes are hot), with some really thought-provoking observations about pacing and characterisation.
I spent today tweaking and changing one of the scenes in response to the feedback. I haven't finished it yet (and it's 5PM, it needs a few more hours work), but I'm tentatively very excited about the changes.
It's hard to explain without spoilers, but if this new approach works it will make the whole Lifepath sexier and a bit zingier and more fun to play and replay.
I worked for the last 7 days straight on this and I'm frazzledso I'll take a break from it now and get back to it first thing tomorrow, with a fresh brain and a fresh pot of coffee
With any luck he can push it out to autumn so he can have two years straight of zero updates!
Two years of zero updates is OK
for one who is not charging monthly subscription it is ok